as Steinfeld, Moretz, Fonseca, and Scodelario. On March 16, 2011, it was announced that Jennifer Lawrence of Winter's Bone and X-Men: First Class landed the coveted role of Katniss Everdeen. Lawrence was 20 at the time, a bit older than the character. However, author Suzanne Collins said the actress who plays Katniss has to have "a certain maturity and power" and said she would rather the actress be older than younger. Collins states Lawrence was the "only one who truly captured the character I wrote in the book" and she had "every essential quality necessary to play Katniss." References Action film characters Adventure film characters Female characters in literature Female characters in film Fictional archers Fictional child soldiers Fictional professional hunters Fictional North American people Fictional revolutionaries Fictional war veterans Fictional characters with post-traumatic stress disorder Fictional women soldiers and warriors Literary characters introduced in 2008 Science fiction film characters Teenage characters in film Teenage characters in literature The Hunger Games characters